Robert Burns Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

113 Famous Quotes by Robert Burns
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“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.”
Uncertainty Quotes
“Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.”
Inspirational Quotes
“The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley. - "To A Mouse".”
Behavior Quotes
“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.”
Certainty Quotes
“Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!”
Cruelty Quotes
“O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.”
Life Quotes
“The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended. - Epistle to a Young Friend, An.”
Literature Quotes
“Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves him?Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. - Ae Fond Kiss.”
Literature Quotes
“But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.”
Love Quotes
“When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.”
Nature Quotes
“Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poem The Cotter’s Saturday Night.”
Pain Quotes
“Prudent, cautious self-control Is wisdom's root.”
Self-control Quotes
“Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!”
Society Quotes